Name: Ep 132: Kyle Kinane
Uploaded: 2023-06-19T01:00:09.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 132: Kyle Kinane' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-19. Transcript available.

Ep 132: Kyle Kinane

we got Kyle Kinane we might be drunk oh it's happening hey we're doing it yeah
thanks thanks for coming in you're a West Coast queef and now you're here with
us Pacific Northwest oh the core fiest yeah I'm Oregon boy now whoa
REI Powell books I mean REI is pre-national yeah we got one of those I just say
like there's a lot of
tents out there yeah I don't think they're buying new a lot of hand-me-downs it's
more of a dick
sporting goods kind of crowd yeah good what prompted the move to Portland
pandemic had a
chance to move up there and then just been there for since the beginning of it
I'm like yeah this is
good no this is all right yeah as I say before I'm like I'm not part of like I
do comedy but I'm not
really a showbiz like I'd never even before pandemic like hey man you want to
drive to Santa Monica for
an audition I was like no no I won't yeah I've been to China to do stand-up but
I will not cross the 405
do a paper towel commercial I'm not into that scene man I hate every audition
and I enjoy now because
I'm such a pussy then I'll get an email from my agent like hey this is a good
role for you it's a
whatever show criminal minds you'd be perfect for it I'm like I don't want to
do it fuck it I'm saying
no what part of criminal minds do the thing what role are you getting on
criminal minds the autistic
serial killer with a couple of zingers they said you don't even have to
audition yeah yeah we wrote it
for you we wrote it for you right yeah I uh it's tough but also doing the road
out of the west coast is
always tougher just with the time change if you're if you're coming east
someone's going to go a day
early right you're behind the eight ball there yeah I'm I'm like I love a red
eye oh you're the
one I sleep yeah I sleep on the plane I snore on the planes a couple drinks
before I get to the
airport a couple drinks on the airport sorry I said I wish I would have saved
mine I had a bunch
oh lay it on us I like that you specifically got pleather seats so they crack
off real nice
man that blew this way I appreciate you oh sorry we're gonna have I don't think
you're sorry I know
you just farted well I didn't mean it to blow on you I mean I mean you did
point it that way but I
think you got a vent I appreciate you blowing it in my direction it smells it
smells healthy oh yeah
chipotle got the guac we're making it through the almonds pretty good but you're
on the road pretty
hard regularly I'm kind of yeah I'm kind of changing it up I just like okay I
just was tired by this like
you see everybody like you see everybody hustle you know everybody's grinding I
get here and
everybody's like I got four sets tonight I got six sets that I'm like that
sounds like hell guys
that sounds like a living hell to me I don't like myself or hate myself enough
to hear that much of
my own voice all right and uh yeah I'm not like a social media guy so I'm like
oh I've actually like
having a lot of fun nobody would know because I'm not celebrating it on
Instagram right oh yeah this
time off is pretty tight it's pretty nice but you have a you have a core fan
base like you got a group
that'll see you anywhere I got a tiny little group out there like I I've gotten
this big realization of
like there might not be superstardom but what if I just make as much as like a
good electrician
oh that's living like what if I make just a solid living and uh and that's it
and then I get
however much off I want a year I like I think it's I don't know I agree I get
jealous of people like oh
look at like people are blowing up and getting all that stuff but I'm like but
do I want to do all
the stuff that they exactly it's a balance you got to give and take like like a
guy like Segura
you know millions of dollars a year arenas I don't know if I'd want that that
worries me I get
anxiety just thinking about that not that I'm going that way you know he's very
talented but like
I don't know I just that's not the direction we're choosing yeah I want to fart
on a on a
pleather couch and hang hang with you guys you did you have a sponsor for you
you're crushing it dude
don't you have your don't you have your own whiskey yeah for the fart cast here
I have no sense of
smell anymore because of you you're welcome that's a shame because there's
whiskey you know the smell
is tied to taste and you can't even enjoy the product me or COVID one of you
one of us fucked your
smell but I don't know that the fame where fame scares the shit out of me that
just doesn't seem
fun I've opened for famous people and running through restaurants and running
through airports
and hiding thank you I don't know thank you I would say that you guys are doing
pretty great
that's a good level though yeah it's a nice easy level we get a little of the
good and you still
gotta do the work hey cheers cheers cheers boys mazel tov
I know what Mark means though I mean like yeah we both like you know open for
Amy Schumer back in
the day we both I mean she was doing arenas at the time yeah it was like it is
like a level I'm like
oh that would be uh that would be hard to be to stay I mean how do you work out
material in arena
I just right yeah at what point is it there's like a too big that it's unmanageable
exactly
it's also weird to see not a high energy act in an arena like I saw I was in St.
Louis and Chris
Rock was in St. Louis so I went to watch the show afterwards and it's weird to
see a comic doing the
type of comedy rock does in an arena you're just used to seeing like I picture
like a Sebastian like
right type of comic you don't picture like rock is saying like philosophical
shit on stage
and you know having to repeat the setup because it's not the type of comedy you
probably would
normally see in an arena I don't think he's new to repeating setups I think it's
kind of been his
thing for a while but still it's not the type of comedy you normally see in a
venue like that you
know yeah yeah I don't well this is I mean of course coming from a place from a
guy who's still doing
clubs I don't know I think you can get too big of a venue for comedy it's a
good what a wonderful
thing to criticize I think it's true though I agree I bombed uh I bombed
opening for the Impractical
Jokers at the same venue I saw Lollapalooza in 1994 like I was the same stage I
saw the Beastie
Boys on and I'm trying to do comedy on it I did it to myself like even before I
went out I'm like
I don't think this is gonna work and then I fulfilled my own destiny you were
the hoobastank
of that Lollapalooza I was 12,000 people but a woman walking to her seat in the
front row
with two beers I was talking about like yeah I saw Smashing Pumpkins I actually
fell asleep in
those seats right there during Smashing Pumpkins a woman in the front row with
two beers just goes
that was a great show fuck you and like even though 11,950 people didn't hear
it I was like fuck this
whole crowd I don't give a shit anymore bombing in an arena I've done it it is
that silence is powerful
I had the sweat dripping by my back I had the the dry mouth oh you're like
brutal I might do
something else yeah I was like shell-shocked in the green room after I was like
oh my god I couldn't
shake it that crowd is tough though too the Joker I bombed in front of the Jokers
have you it's like
this makes me feel better guys it's kids well yeah they're not it's like a
family thing they're
like what we're here for the Jokers there's not a stand-up crowd yeah yeah and
they're settled
they're selling it's 12,000 people outside getting settled with their merch and
beach balls and drinks
yeah and you're like no no listen it's the way the words it's the it's a it's
an enunciation right
it's a subtlety to it like no I I watched I've watched a lot of your shit and
it's pretty
bulletproof so if it's not working for that right oh man you should have been
at most of my sets
this week where were you uh it bounced around here I just like I'll do like
some drop-in sets
but it's like I don't have my sea legs out here and I get I get my own way I
get my own heads I'm
like oh I gotta be like edgy because it's New York but then I'm on like I still
get booked on like
the sensitive alternative shows I'm like wrong choice and then I'll not know
that I'm on the edgy show
and I'm like you guys ever just just think about life right get pensive like
wrong show like I did
not I didn't get here in time I wanted to read the room I didn't have the
chance yeah I we were
talking about this earlier I felt like I started in the creek and the Brooklyn
shows and the whiplash
and all that shit I was like clubbier and you were clubby I had to work off
some like club stank
and he had to work off some alt stank oh yeah big time where's the middle I
think we're all kind of
like getting to the middle at this point because we're working the road exactly
if you live in the city you
have your little niche here right like I do these rooms I do those rooms and
now it's like well no
I do the runs that pay me yeah for a living and I kind of got to win new people
over in those rooms
I got to win over the dates but you hear the stories about like Louis and Marin
and Attell when they
were coming up here in like the 90s they did all the rooms I think that's what
we all want it to be
is you know yeah you want to be funny for everybody yeah I think I just want to
quit
back off live in the country but that's the thing you're so goddamn prolific
like you always have
new shit and a lot of it like it takes me so long to come up with new material
and hone it and refine
it but you always are pumping it out I mean yeah I really like stand-up like I
really love it but
like the part I love about it is coming up with new stuff yeah like once
something works you're like
okay that's good to have yeah but now can I top it exactly and it's like that's
why I
I guess that's why I keep going I can't do like I'm you know I can't like turn
my life into the
reality show with the phone I can all I could do is turn out new material
because that's the part
that I'm attracted to in all of it and uh you know for better or worse it's it's
hell sometimes
sure because you go for like two months without writing a new bit you're like
it's all it's over
yeah that's the worst I spot I stripped the gear yeah because I'm done now
people don't realize a new
joke is like an invention you have to invent something out of thin air or
something has to happen to you
and you have to make it funny and you have to tie it all up and it has to make
sense and have a good
ending and a turn that they didn't see coming I mean it's it's tough well it's
what you said about
doing the four sets a night like mark and I are definitely guilty of being
those types of people
and I think we there's something we battle with or like we forget to live life
sometimes yeah to have
shit to write about and I don't think it's I don't think it's bad to do four
sets a night because you
guys are gonna go you guys gotta like my short game's gone oh really I don't
have a short game
that's scary I'm spoiled I got doing an hour it's 10 minutes of me you know
kicking pebbles around the
stage you're here for me everybody loves me right and then I get here and I'm
just like getting the
light and I'm just like opening my notes like I don't have a quick uh zingers
in New York and I need
them sometimes because you'll be following some new guy and you're like fuck
this dude's really good
yeah and and we're going there trying to work on shit and it's like some new
dude and you're like
this dude's playing the fucking hits yeah oh yeah my first five minutes now we're
gonna be like
kind of you know in the shitter and then you're like it's a 10 minute set I got
lit at eight for
some reason the show's behind right now I just had a bad set yeah your ego's
hurt and then the
young guy's going he's he's the good one come on I'm the man okay can you do
tomorrow night new
material oh shit sorry exactly well that's like on the road too you get like I
I want to give loca